His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Advice on Buddhist Practice


His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Usually our minds are attracted towards different objects. When this connection is cut, with more practice we’ll experience a sort of vacuity, which is the gap between the mind and those objects.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Usually our minds are attracted towards different objects. When this connection is cut, with more practice we’ll experience a sort of vacuity, which is the gap between the mind and those objects.

Advice on Buddhist Practice

By His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Dharamsala, India (Last Updated Oct 15, 2012). An interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India, on November 2, 1988. Lightly edited by Sandra Smith, October 2012.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Greetings. I’m very glad to meet you as a Dharma friend.

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